Manchester United footballer who survived the Munich air crash but who lay undiscovered in the wreckage for several hours

Aged just 18 Kenny Morgans was the youngest of the Manchester United players
on board the BEA Elizabethan aircraft which crashed on take-off after
re-fuelling at Munich airport on route from Belgrade to Manchester on
February 6, 1958, and the last survivor to be rescued from the wreckage.

The young winger was saved from almost certain death by sheer chance. When the
plane crashed into a perimeter fence at the end of the runway and broke up,
Morgans had blacked out and been pushed back by the impact into the luggage
compartment at the rear. He lay there for several